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While the world is on fire, the media are still obsessed with Israel

No one likes to think they're being hysterical. And nothing makes hysterical people angrier than being described as such. So, let me offer my apologies in advance for what follows. Jeremy Musighi, an independent researcher, recently released a study analyzing 14.7 million news articles ...

A president of personal revenge: Pray, people

Atone, America. The high holiday Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, just passed us by at sundown on Sept. 21. Our country, thanks to Donald Trump, has become the scourge of the world. Nowhere was that clearer than in the United Nations General Assembly (Tuesday) where Trump asked ...

House, next steps

Every step of building a house has taken longer than expected. I thought my partner and I would build our cordwood walls in three to six months. If you’re new here, and haven't read my previous columns about my house; cordwood is a way to build walls by stacking logs as you would a cord of ...

Future shock: Is this Team Humanity’s last chance to stand up to AI?

Since we last visited the artificial intelligence industry in this column, a lot has happened, much of it seeming to confirm my worst fears. Seven weeks ago, I wrote about the "Hugging Face" breach, so called for the company that got hacked with no human intervention by "rogue" AI agents ...

Any jury trial problems unfixable?

This is not another opinion article about Lindsay Clancy. Well, not really. I'm not qualified to discuss the woman's actions or the validity of her insanity defense in a murder trial for several million reasons at least. I've learned over the last few weeks that I'm one of the 10 people ...

Five tests of American restraint

Five seemingly unrelated developments -- the Supreme Court's intervention in mail-in ballot rules, a federal judge's decision affecting foreign students and journalists, the blockade threatening Saudi Arabia, an unusual alliance in Michigan politics, and the accelerating power of artificial ...